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By Catholic News Service
This agreeably picturesque love story features likable characters who briefly consider the morality of at least some of their decisions. But it’s so intractably bland, as it strains not to offend, that its plot points lack all emotional tug. Director Ross Katz and screenwriter Bryan Sipe, adapting the 2007 novel by Catholic author Nicholas Sparks, […]
Columnists
By Russell Shaw
Speculation and trial balloons floating lately over the Vatican walls suggest that Pope Francis wants to open up a discussion of married priests in the church. According to reports, this will be the topic of the next world Synod of Bishops in a couple of years. Yes, I know the church already has some married […]
Movies
By Catholic News Service
Cops honest and otherwise clash with Russian mobsters on the mean streets of Atlanta in this extremely violent thriller directed by John Hillcoat. A mafia moll (Kate Winslet) blackmails corrupt officers (most prominently Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anthony Mackie) into carrying out a bank robbery, hoping to free her jailed lover back in Moscow. But a […]
Local
By Catholic Herald Staff Report
A Catholic Navy SEAL with a strong devotion to St. Michael the Archangel was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama at the White House Feb. 29. The 36-year-old Ohio native, Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Edward C. Byers Jr., rescued a civilian hostage in a remote area of Eastern Afghanistan in December […]
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
How did we ever live without Netflix? I work out on my treadmill in the mornings. And now, thanks to the the iPad and the wonders of online entertainment streaming, I can binge-watch TV shows while I’m exercising. My current binge is “Friday Night Lights.” It’s a good show about high school football in a […]
Movies
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper said the Oscar-winning film, “Spotlight,” is not anti-Catholic. “It is not an anti-Catholic movie, as has been written, because the film succeeds in giving voice to the alarm and deep pain” experienced by the Catholic faithful when a team of investigative newspaper reporters in Boston revealed the scandal of […]
National
By Catholic News Service
EMMITSBURG, Md. – Simon Newman, president of Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, resigned from his post Feb. 29 and the university’s board of trustees named the dean of the business school to be acting president. Newman faced mounting criticism over language he used to describe struggling freshmen and for the way he handled the […]
National
By Lou Baldwin
PHILADELPHIA – “Two Irishmen and a nun entered a bar…” What’s the punchline? There isn’t one because this is no joke, but rather a new Catholic outreach effort of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that has taken firm root in a former bar in a tough section of the city. The two Irishmen are Father Joseph […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – In the second of his “Mercy Friday” gestures, Pope Francis spent two hours with a group of young adults at a Catholic-run residential drug rehabilitation center. To the complete surprise of the 55 residents, Pope Francis showed up in his compact Ford Escort at the San Carlo Community Feb. 26 with just […]
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